The significance of banking in any economy can never be overlooked. These banks provide a flow to the money which is the life blood of any economy. Banking Revolution through ATMs has made banks available in almost all the streets of the country by both public as well as private sector banks....

This study provides deeper insight into the linkages between Bank M&A and M&A literature and test the hypotheses that Acquirers gain significantly from a M&A strategy. Analyzing the Banking industry as an example of Horizontal mergers, the study aims to validate that M&A is a value creating...

Foreign Banks have engendered followers and detractors in each host dispensation and in their home countries. After the recent bank crisis they continue increasing their presence in Asian and Emerging markets (Claessens and Horens, 2014), yet activity in Markets for Corporate Control has been...

The paper aims to recover the critical role of banks in defining the relationship between Financial Development and growth. We hypothesize that Banks can positively motivate templatized GDP growth. A System GMM estimation of GDP growth in a sample of high growth emerging markets from Asia...

We analyze 188 bank mergers and acquisitions from the 2005-2016 period in Asia and report significant Positive Abnormal Returns for acquirers in both the crises and post crisis periods. Market model event studies provide a natural setting to tackle problems of endogeneity. Acquirers seem to be...